"It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive."

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"It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive."

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"People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them."

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"Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch."

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"Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable."

Heart, Purity

"No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it."

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"No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time."

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"Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor."

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"The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in."

World,

"The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide."

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"Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings."

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"The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment."

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"I think you will see a lot of strains develop in the political process that will result in violence everywhere in the country - but it's controllable, it's workable and it will lead to a much better future for these people."

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"But all that having been said, you can't, in a city of a million people like Karbala, or 5 million like Baghdad, you can't be in all places at all times."

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"It's also natural in that part of the world to blame what people view as the... as the most important authority in the region, and that currently is the United States of America."

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"But doing what I do, you will never get unanimity of people."

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"I'm not going to let people get away with either a dishonest or inaccurate premise to what we're talking about because I think that does the viewer a disturbance."

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"Some people think I'm a total moron and I would hope most people think I'm very good at what I do."

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"You people are telling me what you think I want to know. I want to know what is actually happening."

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